why does my internal ssd report as an external drive

Hi Loner T

Thanks for reply.

Have reset SMC - no change

Have reset NVRAM - no change

Drive is:

1.0TB OWC Aura SSD for Mac Pro: Internal Solid State Drive Upgrade Kit (with case for removed 250GB SSD to make a 250GB portable SSD)

This is report from terminal:

Martins-Mac-Pro:~ MyMAC-PRO$ diskutil info /

Device Identifier: disk0s2

Device Node: /dev/disk0s2

Whole: No

Part of Whole: disk0

Device / Media Name: Martin's MAC

Volume Name: Martin's MAC

Mounted: Yes

Mount Point: /

File System Personality: Journaled HFS+

Type (Bundle): hfs

Name (User Visible): Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

Journal: Journal size 73728 KB at offset 0x1bf0000

Owners: Enabled

Partition Type: Apple_HFS

OS Can Be Installed: Yes

Recovery Disk: disk0s3

Media Type: Generic

Protocol: PCI

SMART Status: Not Supported

Volume UUID: 19954EE8-5F10-33B8-958D-3C5D3E812FD5

Disk / Partition UUID: D47369CA-3688-4578-A91B-F4C8BA9D7828

Total Size: 959.0 GB (959034236928 Bytes) (exactly 1873113744 512-Byte-Units)

Volume Free Space: 771.5 GB (771456921600 Bytes) (exactly 1506751800 512-Byte-Units)

Device Block Size: 512 Bytes

Allocation Block Size: 4096 Bytes

Read-Only Media: No

Read-Only Volume: No

Device Location: External

Removable Media: No

Solid State: No

Martins-Mac-Pro:~ MyMAC-PRO$

Thanks for taking the time for your help but the problem still exists.

Martin

Hi

Thanks for reply

Nothing else connected, not getting anywhere with this.

Is it possible that it is the OWC Aura SSD is not as compatible as OWC would have me think?

I cannot even get to the startup manager using the option key on startup with any of the following either plugged in or not :-

Genuine WIN 10 Installation USB stick.

USB stick with ISO file on it.

USB stick with the Windows support files on it.

Even tried with a wired keyboard.

I have Partitioned the OWC drive to 800GB for OS X and the rest(some 159GB) for WIN 10 (MS DOS FAT).

A re-programming with an axe is looming......

Open to suggestions

Martin

Hi Loner T

Thank you for all your advice, I have since spoken with OWC who have told me that yes I can run Windows or OS X as either/or but not on the same drive under separate partitions using bootcamp or other.

I have re-installed my 250GB SSD and installed Windows 10 with a degree of success, I am left without any audio in windows (probably a driver issue).

I have decided to give in with this battle and resurect an old PC for running windows.

Will post Diskutil O/P of original drive still if you think it may be helpful.

Thanks again

Martin